This has been called a ‘Last Stand’, and some commentators have suggested it will last until the Democratic Convention, when this pathetic would-be candidate will once again try to be chosen by the Party she has done so much to weaken.

The first logical excuse for her persistence that I have heard, or read, is that she is desperate to recoup some of the vast funds wasted in her campaign. But this explanation merely underlines the corruption which is intrinsic in the electoral system which has survived in the USA, where money is considered to be the key to everything in life.

Modern democratic states have long since done something to end this form of corruption, and, in most of them, the antics of the leading figures in the USA campaign would automatically lead to prosecution and heavy penalties. I can remember, when I was young, being told that the political system in the USA was approximately two hundred years behind us.

Mrs Clinton's behaviour reminds me of only one figure whose exploits were imprinted on my mind by my upbringing—Samson, when he pulled the roof down on himself. She obviously wishes to do all she can to prevent any other candidate from effectively representing her Party in the presidential election.

However, the most believable reason for her destructive action against her own Party is to elect Mr McCain and oblige him to take on the impossible task of trying to clear up the mess left behind by the Bush régime. She could then propose herself again in 2012, after he has failed, as the saviour of the Democrats.

This makes it clear that her craftiness is the sign of a most unheroic Last Stand, so far as 2008 is concerned.

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